Casa de la Ciencia
Former colonial-style world fair pavilion turned science museum, its foyer greeting visitors with a suspended whale skeleton.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Casa de la Ciencia in Seville starts with a riddle about a house built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition: a Peruvian pavilion drawn by a Spaniard. You'll meet the architect Manuel Piqueras Cotolí, his career in Lima, and some of the grand commissions that made his name there. Later chapters follow the building's other lives as a consulate and a research base. Best heard standing in the main hall, where the marble floor and columns are in view.
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